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Trouble with MySQL Gem
Ran into trouble installing the native MySQL database extension for Ruby via the gem command.
sudo gem install mysql
results in some complaints:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Apparently, on my Mac OS X Panther system, MySQL was installed in /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/lib.
To fix:
cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.6
sudo ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
sudo gem install mysql
More info here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/MySQL+Database+access+problem
For Windows, here: http://www.bantamtech.com/~kevin/?p=28
Update:
Much simpler solution per Ruby on Rails mailing list:
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Update 2:
An even simpler solution per Ruby on Rails mailing list:
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config
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